u/DandyLionsInSiberia

>Lush’s “Ladykillers” remains one of the sharpest little pins stuck into the inflated backside of a particular strand of mid-90s Camden masculinity.

>Sparked by Miki Berenyi’s allegedly trying encounter with Anthony Kiedis, the song skewers a very specific type of indie man.

>Not the hard-living old bohemian, but the (then ) newer, flimsier version. The floppy-fringed publican-philosopher who’d read half of The Basketball Diaries, owned one too many Cuban shirts, and treated emotional vacancy as evidence of depth. The sort who’d corner you in the bar at the The Good Mixer to explain tantric energy while visibly scanning the room for someone prettier to ignore him.

>"Ladykillers” punctures that fantasy by treating these supposed seducers not as dangerous, but as embarrassingly predictable. That’s the song’s real cruelty. Not outrage, boredom. Lush look at this entire tribe of swaggering Camden Romeos and conclude that beneath the cigarettes, sideburns and pseudo-spiritual chat-up lines, they are all fundamentally the same bloke.

The above cropped up on a random streaming shuffle recently .. it caused me to wonder..

Which Britpop or Britpop adjacent remixes genuinely translated into something funky or dancey that still hold up now?

Which efforts missed the mark completely and are better left as period curiosities?